Welcome Brother C...B...
I've got money to chip in for gas and I'll buy the maple doughnuts!
(Sister Smurfette kissing up so she doesn't get smote by the new guy)
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Greetings!!!
by CsharpBminor ini am looking forward to meeting each and every one of you during my visit.
thank you for allowing me to park my van outside of your kingdom hall!
i am counting on you to see to it that i eat well while i am here.
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Quick Introduction
by Nocturne ini've been lurking here for a few months now, and i've been wanting to post for awhile now but i've never really been up to it.
i first stumbled upon the information about the wtbts being an ngo for 10 years in september, and ever since i've been finding out about all the other things the society has been up to.
as of now, i'm still going to the meetings, but now my eyes have been truly opened, and i can see things in a whole new perspective, and it's amazing the deception that's going on in the organization.
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Welcome Nocturne!
You sound like you're in a pretty similar situation to my own down to the pressured to get baptised young by my single mom and the "If you were to leave the truth..." speeches. I wish you the best of luck in whatever you decide to do.
I left "the truth" 10 years ago when I graduated high school. For me personally, although my mom took it hard, she did not "die". It was hard at first, but it got easier with time. I would not go back or change my decision for anything! I learned later that the speeches my mom used to give me have a name...emotional blackmail.
Best of luck to you - Smurfette
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NAME A GOOD CONGREGATION 2 GO 2!
by badboy in.
i would like 2 go 2 1 which has lots of fistfights/scandals etc etc.. make it my day by naming such a congregation.
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smurfette
Grand Marais congregation, Minnesota used to be good for a wicked fistfight. My brother left so now it's probably alot less exciting.
Silver Bay congregation just up the road isn't big on fistfights but they get some awesome scandals.
I don't think I'd be able to handle all the down time involved in hanging out with those people again, though. Just watch Jerry Springer for a good scandal/fistfight fix.
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The Biggest Scandal In Your Congregation
by Hunyadi ini attended a notorious congregation as a child, the infamous winter gardens congregation!
my cousin and his best friend, both named joe, were elders, my cousin was the po and the other joe was a total loser suck up who wanted to be just like my cousin, joe.
what was even funnier, as i get off point a bit, is that "suck up" joe's wife, cathy, did everything she could do to get her pudgy lil self to dress, look, walk, and talk like my cousin joe's wife, clementine.
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Grand Marais hall, Minnesota, used to be a good one for scandals and fistfights, but I think all of us who were causing most of the scandals are gone now. It's probably pretty quiet now since there's only like 10 people left. Mostly minor scandals but lots of fistfights. My little bro was to blame for most of the fistfighting and scandals though. Being a fatherless boy he got no mercy from the elders.
The hall just up the road got all the really horrific scandals, they had, still have in fact, freaks galore. Elders wives peeping in windows to detect bad behavior, attempted library break ins to detect unnapproved reading, lots of sex scandals. After reading this, it looks like they are a pretty normal congregation after all.
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Fantasy Prone Personalities v. Skeptics
by Robdar inwhile watching the history traveler channel's story on lourdes, i heard an interesting phrase: "fantasy prone personality" and looked it up on line.
i think it's pretty interesting.
http://www.musespace.com/musings/articles/fantasy.html.
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Thanks Robdar, both articles are really interesting. I think I'm a fantasy prone skeptic.
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Merry belated Smurfmas!
by smurfette injust thought i'd share my chrismas card that i sent out with you guys.
i know we're way past christmas, but i've been off-line for awhile.
the inside of the card reads : "have a smurftastic christmas!".
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smurfette
Just thought I'd share my Chrismas card that I sent out with you guys. I know we're way past Christmas, but I've been off-line for awhile. The inside of the card reads : "Have a smurftastic Christmas!"
I thought the legend of the demonic Smurfs needed to be taken a step further.
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Tell Us About Your Local.
by Englishman inyou know..where you go to relax, meet your mates, have a few bevvies.
everyone needs a local.
ex-jw's especially need a local to meet new people and get a new social perspective!.
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Starbucks???? The Olive Garden????
Sorry fellow Americans, but I'm with the Englishman on this one. We don't call it a local here but call it a corner bar or a watering hole. I have a couple favorites in my town and all my Ex Dub friends have their own favorites and we make a circut between them. I work at a Casino Bar too and I have all my regular customers (like cheers) and friends there too. My favorite bar has an open mic night and it's fun to have a few and either enjoy or make fun of the new talent.
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Am I the only one who has never seen a WT/Awake left in a public place?
by somebodylovesme ini've heard a few comments about watchtowers and awakes being left in doctor's offices, laundromats, etc.
maybe the witnesses are lazy in my home area, but i have never seen anything like that -- and i think, since i always look for something to read, i would have noticed.
strange.
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I didn't realize it had a name either! My only regular call was the Laundromat when I was a kid. A friend and I made a home movie of our town when we were 15 and we devoted a portion of it to making fun of pioneers padding their hours laundromat witnessing. My mom saw the movie and got ticked, she erased that part of our movie, sadly, because it was pretty funny.
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How to reason with someone who has all the answers?
by smurfette inalot if not all of you have beat your head against the wall of jw dogma spewing forth from a loved one.
i'm hoping some of you may have come up with some good answers to some of it or maybe even something profound enough to get through and actually change a jw mind or two.. i'm specifically looking for points to bring up regarding da-ing and df-ing, and why it's wrong.
i'm dealing with the extremly set in her ways, new world translation or nothing sort of jw, just waiting to brand me an apostate.
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Thanks again Scully, that was exactly the kind of answer I've been looking for.
LoL Elswhere!
I agree with you Got My 40, patience and whittling is my only hope with my mom.
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How to reason with someone who has all the answers?
by smurfette inalot if not all of you have beat your head against the wall of jw dogma spewing forth from a loved one.
i'm hoping some of you may have come up with some good answers to some of it or maybe even something profound enough to get through and actually change a jw mind or two.. i'm specifically looking for points to bring up regarding da-ing and df-ing, and why it's wrong.
i'm dealing with the extremly set in her ways, new world translation or nothing sort of jw, just waiting to brand me an apostate.
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No, I don't think your pesimistic, I agree with you, and yes she does have her head stuck up her ***! I was just hoping maybe someone has come up with something new I can use to possibly help her and myself. I guess I just always keep hoping for those magic words that'll get through to her.
-Margy